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countries, (ii) the fisscal multiplier is relatively large in economies operating under predetermined exchange rate but zero in …
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A New Keynesian model with government production, public compensation, and unemployment is fit to U.S. data to study the macroeconomic and fiscal effects of public wage reductions. We find that accounting for the type of government spending is crucial for its macroeconomic implications. Although...
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Would population aging affect the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus? Despite the renewed focus on population aging … fiscal stimulus to support aggregate demand during recession and thus require larger fiscal space to allow a wider swing of … to promote labor supply could help increase the output effect of fiscal stimulus in aging economies …
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What do we know about the output effects of fiscal policy in low income countries (LICs)? There are very few empirical studies on the subject. This paper fills this gap by estimating the output effects of government spending shocks in LICs. Our analysis-based on the local projection method-finds...
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This paper studies how the effects of government spending vary with the economic environment. Using a panel of OECD countries, we identify fiscal shocks as residuals from an estimated spending rule and trace their macroeconomic impact under different conditions regarding the exchange rate...
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This paper studies how the effects of government spending vary with the economic environment. Using a panel of OECD countries, we identify fiscal shocks as residuals from an estimated spending rule and trace their macroeconomic impact under different conditions regarding the exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396507
Government debt in many small states has risen beyond sustainable levels and some governments are considering fiscal consolidation. This paper estimates fiscal policy multipliers for small states using two distinct models: an empirical forecast error model with data from 23 small states across...
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more relevant now that several European countries have had to quickly retract their stimulus measures in an effort to …
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. In the medium-term, the revenue multiplier becomes insignificant (with a wide confidence interval) and the spending … multiplier strengthens. Capital and current spending have a similar effect on growth but the capital multiplier remains … multiplier estimates suggest a more diverse combination of measures …
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